Pieces of 150 sculptors cover the r gounds in exotic and natural set *VV tings. The seven most famous ar tists represented are Augustus !Saint Garidens, Daniel Chester French (both now deceased), Paul Manship, Malvinna H o f f m a n, Wheeler Williams, Sidney Waugh, and Anna Hyatt Huntington, wife of Archer M. Huntington. (Note: Mr. and Mrs. Huntington now live in Bether, Connecticut, and are | "T? „ ** both still very creative artists.) The Brookgreen collection con tains more than 300 pieces of stat uary and sculpture ranging in size from a coin to the giant "Fight ing Stallions" which guard the en trance, done in life size by Mrs. Huntington at the age of 73. Mrs. Huntington selects the statuary to be placed in the gardens and many a young American artist has sold V * his first piece to the collection. $ ^Jb&z& Most areas and pieces are describ **"»*rf»m;Rig : ed by inscriptions of poetry either £^ <&£#&. "w ***;*# j; written by Archer M. Huntington or selected from other poets by him. The value today of the sculp ture is well into the millions of dollars. NATIVE PLANTS Although Brookgreen is not not ed for its floral beauty its resi VIEW OF ©LIVE OAK WALK© ITS MOSS-HUNG TR EES ARE MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED YEARS OLD dent .horticulturist and manager, F. G. Tarbox Jr., has spent the twenty-two years since the Hunt- ingtons acquired tbe gardens mak SplendoivBeaiity, History And Art Prevail ing them a true garden of the 1
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